Kidnapping suspect (of 4 year old) takes own life in Lincoln County, Missouri

[Ruby the Liberal]

Source: KMOV

(KMOV)-- The suspect accused of kidnapping a 4-year-old Louisiana, Missouri girl has taken his own life.

Sources close to the investigation tell News 4 they were given information from a store that he purchased clothing from there that lead them to a property in Lincoln County, Missouri. When police approached the property in the 300 block of Highway D the suspect came outside and shot himself to death. Police have confirmed the suspect's name was Paul Smith. A news conference is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday. Be sure to stay with KMOV.com for the very latest.

Read more: http://www.kmov.com/news/local/4-year-old-girl-taken-from-front-yard-97826599.html

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Video report at link. I hope she wasn't harmed.

At least he won't hurt/terrorize another child.

[Matariki]

1. A missing Louisiana, Missouri girl has been found alive and safe.

A missing Louisiana, Missouri girl has been found alive and safe. St. Louis County police tell News 4 that Alisa Maier, 4, was found at a car wash off Gravois Road in Fenton, Missouri. Fenton is 93 miles away from where Alisa was taken.

[meowomon]

2. Good Riddance

I wish more child rapists would take this same route before they hurt another innnocent child.

[Sal Minella]

3. I'd be happy to chip in toward the cost of posthumous awards,

thanking them for their contribution to the greater good of mankind, perhaps a cousin of the Darwin Award.

Seems to me that "no longer able to abuse children" is just as useful a category as "no longer able to have children."

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. +1

I have never been in this position (as a parent), but suicide or 'suicide by cop' seems to have more closure to me than worrying about parole down the road. Not to mention the child's recovery from the trauma being enhanced by the knowledge that "he will never come after her again".

[carlyhippy]

5. well good, he wont hurt another child again.

I have no sympathy for someone who would abduct or hurt a child.

I sound like a mean-hearted biotch, but all bets are off when it comes to a person who hurts a child.

[carlyhippy]

6. The suspect is a 38-year-old convicted sex offender!

:(

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. Yet he walked the streets as a free man because?

I know I am heartless when it comes to crimes involving children, but the recidivism rate doesn't give much confidence.

Even if he didn't touch/hurt her - she had to have been terrified.

[rasputin1952]

7. Thankfully, this less than human creature can never again terrify

another family.

Welcome home, be safe...may this never happen to another child.

[Odin2005]

9. Good riddance to this non-human monster.

[lavenderdiva]

10. reading the story at the link in your post says the suspect is alive

he is alive but in critical condition. I hope (if he lives) that he is locked up for good.

[Tx4obama]

11. CNN has updated their story from 'dead' to 'in critical condition'

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/07/missouri.abducted.child/index.html?video=true&hpt=T2

[proteus_lives]

12. Too bad.

Hopefully some other prisoner in the near future will return him to the dead category.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

19. Let's say you know a prison guard who's in charge of keeping the kidnapper in solitary.

You hear him say other inmates offered him money to allow them a few minutes with the pervert.

And he refused. He didn't let them and kept doing his job.

What is your opinion about such a guard?

[Ian David]

16. I guess he got better. n/t

[Tx4obama]

17. And now apparently he HAS DIED in the hospital. n/t

[Tx4obama]

13. Here's a link to Keith Olbermann video clip regarding this issue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhs9yO1o9NM
start at the 2:02 minute mark

[truthisfreedom]

14. To be fair, he says they'll let you die for 1/100th of a penny, but it was 5/100ths of a penny.

But close enough. 8^D

[truthisfreedom]

15. They'd better make sure they have the right guy. Would be tragic if he killed himself because

he was scared about going back to prison and there was someone else involved or it was actually a different perp.

[MattBaggins]

18. Shhhhhh... Don't get in the way of the DU blood lust

Someone said the magic word "child". You are immediately required to suspend logic and reasoning.

The mere mention of a child being involved calls for immediate drawing of blood; no trial, no investigation, nothing.

If you are suspected of even looking cross eyed at a child you are now a non human being.

Christ the blood lusters are as bad as the psychopaths they hate. Cut from the same cloth.